Ducado
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tommytheblue said:
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Did We/Mancini/The Players Underestimate Pompey?
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I am so pleased that there are some realists on here!
SalfordCityBlue
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buzzer1 said:I left 5mins as i had to be back in Sintellins to buy my little'n' some school shoes before the shop shut, i would have got them this morning but she only showed me her ripped shoe whilst walking from the car to COMS, is this a good enough excuse?
Shoe shop must've been packed if all 15,000 who left were on their way there!
SalfordCityBlue said:buzzer1 said:I left 5mins as i had to be back in Sintellins to buy my little'n' some school shoes before the shop shut, i would have got them this morning but she only showed me her ripped shoe whilst walking from the car to COMS, is this a good enough excuse?
Shoe shop must've been packed if all 15,000 who left were on their way there!
No mate, just me i'm afraid.
jimharri
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Ba-boom tsh!SalfordCityBlue said:buzzer1 said:I left 5mins as i had to be back in Sintellins to buy my little'n' some school shoes before the shop shut, i would have got them this morning but she only showed me her ripped shoe whilst walking from the car to COMS, is this a good enough excuse?
Shoe shop must've been packed if all 15,000 who left were on their way there!
jimharri said:Ba-boom tsh!SalfordCityBlue said:Shoe shop must've been packed if all 15,000 who left were on their way there!
No mate, just ordinary black school shoes.
cleavers
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As always, some blues assumed we'd win 25-0, so yes a number of our supporters did. This is the Premier League, and while Portsmouth are without doubt pretty shite, I don't for one minute think that Mancini did, in fact I'd go so far as to say he put out a team that did a thoroughly professional performance, hardly breaking sweat, winning, keeping a clean sheet. He warned before the game that this was a dangerous game, as it happens it proved otherwise, but his caution was correct.
If you look at Premier League winners (which we are not yet), they do exactly what we did today, not one of them just turns up and scores 10 every week (or even every other week). On the very odd occasion when everything clicks, they might, and so might we one day.
Well done City, comfortable win, something we weren't doing earlier this season.
So far under Mancini we have beaten every team that we 'should' beat, and kept clean sheets in virtually all of them, its all very un-City like, good isn't it. The 2 we've lost are games you might expect to lose, rags and everton (in decent form now) away.
If you look at Premier League winners (which we are not yet), they do exactly what we did today, not one of them just turns up and scores 10 every week (or even every other week). On the very odd occasion when everything clicks, they might, and so might we one day.
Well done City, comfortable win, something we weren't doing earlier this season.
So far under Mancini we have beaten every team that we 'should' beat, and kept clean sheets in virtually all of them, its all very un-City like, good isn't it. The 2 we've lost are games you might expect to lose, rags and everton (in decent form now) away.
mcfc_die_hard
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We were shit
The atmosphere was shit
The game was boring
But we won 2-0
Nice clean sheet
And 3 points
Sign of a good team is winning ugly which we did today
The atmosphere was shit
The game was boring
But we won 2-0
Nice clean sheet
And 3 points
Sign of a good team is winning ugly which we did today
ConnorMCFC
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3 points that will do.
however, the style of football we seem to be playing is worrying for me
however, the style of football we seem to be playing is worrying for me
a good result a crap game it might have been expected after wednesday but i still expected a little more.tevez still looks in the form of his life if only ade could work half as hard he would be a force up front. they should draw a line under this week and start fresh for next week and really get themselves up for the next match and push on for that champions league spot its in our hands if we really want it lets get behind them and give them our full support and see where that takes us.
Nelly's Left Foot
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Sounds like the OP and plenty of other fans might have underestimated Pompey but I don't think the manager did. He kept to his cautious team and approach and by and large it meant they didn't threaten to score too often and once we were ahead it was routine even if totally boring rubbish from an attacking point of view.